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Commit de271471 authored by Claude Becker's avatar Claude Becker
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notes_on_linux_package_management

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......@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The version number of a package contains several valuable pieces of information
Example: 2:3.6.19-1~bpo70+1
* 2: = epoch. Provided to allow mistakes in the previous package numbers to be left behind.
* 2: = epoch, provided to allow mistakes in the previous package numbers to be left behind.
* 3.6.19 = major.minor.micro version number of the package upstream
* -1 = Debian revision to allow multiple packages of the same upstream version
* ~bpo70 = backported to Debian 7.0 aka Squeeze
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